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Tag Archives: August Strindberg
angels and demons not included
Ingmar Bergman’s religious views, his particular spiritual ideology have always held interest because unlike a Dawkins or a Hitchens, there is always nuance and ambiguity to Bergman’s views, always a few hidden back door and small windows with cracks in … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged agnosticism, Atheism, August Strindberg, bibi anderson, Carl Jung, Christopher Hitchens, igmar bergman through a glass darkly, Ingmar Bergman, ingmar bergman the rite, Liv Ullmann, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog
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farewell to winter light
Ingmar Bergman and god. Antagonistic and at arm’s length and without resolution. A movement between finding security in the idea of god and then followed by severe and chronic bouts of doubt. Maybe its all about a desire for security, … Continue reading
seventh seal : sitting out the last dance
A dog-tired knight on his return journey from the Crusades travels through a country plagued by the plague where he meets, in a literal sense, death himself. Not death warmed over, but death. Unambiguous death in black and white. The … Continue reading
dislocation : journals of the anti-saint
Disturbing. Jean Genet is Downright terrifying. A dark star. A solitude and shimmering of a black star. …Outside select literary circles, Genet is today an almost-forgotten writer, so it’s probably appropriate not only to consider the “last Genet,” but also … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Ahdaf Soueif, Allen Ginsberg, Arthur Rimbaud, August Strindberg, Edmund White, hadrian laroche, Henrik Ibsen, Henry Miller, Herbert Huncke, Jacques Derrida, Jean Cocteau, Jean Genet, Jean-Luc Godard, Michel Foucault, Samuel Beckett, stan persky, Terry Southern, William S. Burroughs
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strindberg & the painting of chance
August Strindberg was mainly known as a writer, but he was also a radical painter for his time. He viewed the landscape of his native Sweden as a reflection and metaphor for his own churning emotions and his diverse compositions … Continue reading
SLEEPWALKING IN WEIMAR: Hypnosis in the Asylum
Quoting Hesse’s Steppenwolf -‘Human life is reduced to hell only when two ages two cultures overlap. Now there are times when a whole generation is caught between two ages with a consequence it looses all power to understand itself and … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Alban Berg, August Strindberg, Carl Mayer, Dr. Robert Blackburn, Franz Kafka, Franz Werfel, Friedrich Nietzsche, George Grosz, Gottfried-Benn, Hans Janowitz, Herman Hesse, Otto Dix, Peter Rex Valentine, Robert Weine, Robert Wiene, Seth Taylor, Walter Benjamin
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PERSONALITY CRISIS: VAMPIRES & INSUPERABLE DISTANCE BETWEEN TRUTH AND POSSIBILITY
“In Persona the stunning sensuous-mouthed Liv Ullmann plays Elizabet Volger, an actress who suddenly, during a performance, gets an overwhelming desire to laugh. (She’s acting in a tragedy, so the laughter seems inappropriate to her) And after she gets the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Fish, Anton Chekhov, August Strindberg, Bernard Shaw, Bibi Andersson, Bruce Kawin, Bryant Frazer, Buck Theorem, Daniel C. Shaw, Daniel Shaw, David Bordwell, David Lynch, David Thomson, George Bernard Shaw, Holly Hunter, Ingmar Bergman, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Kelly Oliver, Liv Ullmann, Michael Haneke, Orlan, Robert Boyers, Rumi, Sheila O'Malley, Sigmund Freud, Stuart Jeffries Guardian, Sven Nykvist
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WE DON’T NEED ANOTHER HERO: FEEDING ON THE TRUTH?
Bergman’s “Persona” is a dark a beautiful film that deals ultimately with heroism; an uncommon theme in our time. “As Kelly Oliver writes, alluding to the enigmatic opening sequence with its images of sacrifice, vampirism, crucifixion and death, “in their … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged Alessandro Botticelli, August Strindberg, Bach, Bibi Andersson, Caravaggio, Carl Jung, Daniel Shaw, Ingmar Bergman, Jeff Pearlman, John William Waterhouse, Kelly Oliver, Liv Ullmann, Margaretha Krook, Narcissism, Sheila O'Malley, Sigmund Freud, Strindberg, Swedish Cinema
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